DocumentCode
3092529
Title
Von Neumann´s Biased Coin Revisited
Author
Bienvenu, L. ; Monin, B.
Author_Institution
LIAFA, Univ. de Paris 7, Paris, France
fYear
2012
fDate
25-28 June 2012
Firstpage
145
Lastpage
154
Abstract
Suppose you want to generate a random sequence of zeros and ones and all you have at your disposal is a coin which you suspect to be biased (but do not know the bias). Can "perfect" randomness be produced with this coin? The answer is positive, thanks to a little trick discovered by von Neumann. In this paper, we investigate a generalization of this question: if we have access to a source of bits produced according to some probability measure in some class of measures, and suppose we know the class but not the measure (in the above example, the class would be the class of all Bernoulli measures), can perfect randomness be produced? We will look at this question from the viewpoint of effective mathematics and in particular the theory of effective randomness.
Keywords
probability; random processes; random sequences; Bernoulli measures; Von Neumann biased coin; effective randomness; perfect randomness; probability measure; random sequence generation; Atomic measurements; Extraterrestrial measurements; Frequency measurement; Random sequences; Topology; Algorithmic Randomness; Computability; Effective mathematics; Markov measure; Measure theory; Randomness extraction;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Logic in Computer Science (LICS), 2012 27th Annual IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location
Dubrovnik
ISSN
1043-6871
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-2263-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LICS.2012.26
Filename
6280433
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